*APPLAUSE*
I wholeheartedly agree. Smoke 'em while you're staring down Death, or use them as barter when needed to get info on the enemy.
Back in the late 70's, they used to put smokes and matches in our MREs! I wasn't interested in smoking but was able to trade them for brownies and packs of gum, LOL!
Everyone and everything has their price in this world...
There were no MREs in the 70s they were C-rats back then and they had smokes.
I was stationed in Europe (NATO Italy) for two years. It's amazing what a few packs of Marlboros , A Zippo lighter or
Butterball turkeys will bring as reward.